Favorite Titles

The books below are some of my favorites: titles I recommend, gift, re-read, and adore.
I’m a bit of a digital doodler, and often post books I’m reading on my Instagram page as well.
Picture Books
- Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall
- Berry Song by Michaela Goade
- Mama, Do You Love Me by Barbara M. Jooose & Barbara Lavallee
- From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
- Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard & James Allard
- Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Wayne Rosen
- The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson
Early Chapter Books & Middle Grade Fiction:
- Clementine by Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
- Wonder by RJ Palacio
- Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
- Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Young Adult Fiction
- I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
- Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
- In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
General Fiction
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Memoir / Biography
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Lit by Mary Karr
- Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- On Writing by Stephen King
Poetry
- Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
- The Lost Words: A Spell Book by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
Graphic Novels
- White Bird by RJ Palacio
- Flamer by Mike Curato
Nonfiction
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
- Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt